Founding & Leading TechStartups

The lecture covers topics you should know when founding a tech-startup and is presented by successful founders of four different tech startups based around Darmstadt with 10-150 employees and supported by HIGHEST, Futury and experienced laywers.

Course Information

Lecture title Founding & Leading TechStartups
TechStartups: Gründung und Führung
Semester Winter semester
Lecturers Dr. Rafael Fietzek, Co-Founder Compredict
Dr. Christian Hertle, Co-Founder SFM Systems
Ansgar Kadura, Co-Founder Wingcopter
Dr. Philipp Rosenberger, Co-Founder Persival

Dr. Maximilian Knaus, WSL Patentanwälte
Melissa Ott, Managing Director Futury
Jovana Walter, Managing Partner Futury Capital
Philipp Weber, Partner Momentum

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Steven Peters
Lecture language German
Description
  • Role of startups as disruptors
  • Business model development (value proposition, target group identification…)
  • Founding (especially GmbH)
  • Financing and scaling of technology-intensive startups (including venture capital)
  • Legal issues (especially IP)
  • Good governance & leadership
Date of lecture Tuesdays, 08:30–11:00
Location Building L1|01, Room 528
Script online: Moodle (for signed in students only)
Date of exam Exams at FZD